If you want to get emissions reductions, you must make the alternatives for electric power generation cheaper than coal. It's that simple. If you don't do that, you lose.
As the year and the decade draw to a close, I'm strangely optimistic. True, there are many reasons for pessimism. But over the past week, I have found reasons to at least be cheerful in popular entertainment.
China has been widely blamed for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks. Is that fair?
With regards to clean energy and environmental protection, this year has seen great progress and renewed hope, thanks in large part to President Obama's leadership. But there is still much to be done.
Obama's speech said three things: hey foreign leaders, we don't want foreign oil; hey China, even though we've been negotiating all year well, I'm going to scold you; and hey world: even though these are negotiations, I have nothing to offer.
Jeff Gibbs is right to be concerned about using trees and "woody" biomass for renewable electricity. We need to save some dead trees and limbs to recycle nutrients and feed the soil and forest ecosystem.
The idea that the nations of the world would cede sovereignty over their economies to permit a global greenhouse gas cap-and-trade policy was misguided fantasy that is hopefully now laid to rest. So how do we move forward?
This is the first time in the history of climate negotiations that the global solar industry has gathered together with one voice. And our message was clear - we are ready now to help solve the climate crisis.
We challenged filmmakers across the country to create what they think is the best 30-second ad that compels young people to save energy. The winning video, Generation does just that.
While the climate change issue is much bigger than a competition between any two countries, it does show how much can be accomplished when even one nation commits to action.
The U.S. and China each need to do one more thing to give one another, and rest of the world, the confidence to move forward in Copenhagen
Stephon normally wakes up to arrive at work around 7AM. He's a weatherization technician and often rides on the Ardently Green insulation truck to the...
By not addressing climate change more aggressively and creatively, the United States is squandering an opportunity to secure its global primacy for the next few generations to come.
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Our special coverage of the historic U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen continues; AP finds 'no fraud' in stolen ...
If you have ever looked into solar before but decided that you could not afford the money out of pocket to get it -- now is a great time to think again.
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
Even in the absence of national and international commitments, we must not ignore the tremendous movement that is already under way to solve our environmental and energy problems.
From Bruce Nilles, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. This post was co-written by Tim Wagner of Resource MediaNearly a year after the Bus...
If energy and climate change are the great challenges facing the human race, why are leaders who should be telling us what our options are talking like a bunch of bean counters?
During his briefing today to announce the launch of expanded clean energy in developing countries today, Steven Chu also debunked two major myths about solar energy.
It's been said that rainforests are the lungs of the world. But the oceans are among the most susceptible environments when it comes to feeling the impact from human generated atmospheric carbon.
